Free Bird
The blueprint southern-rock outro solo. Allen Collins played the entire four-minute Free Bird outro himself on a modified 1964 Gibson Firebird I run through a slaved Marshall Super Tremolo + Fender Twin Reverb rig — Marshall grind for sustain, Fender Twin for clarity, both pushing the same Strat-into-cab signal. The solo was tracked in two takes and double-tracked for stereo width. No pedals, no boost — just two cranked amps in parallel.
Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd
What we checked
Computed by a program, on this recipe, every time this page is built. How this works
Preset files — 1 of 3 complete
- Helix builds complete — every block in the recipe is in the file
- Quad Cortex 1 block replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Studio Comp. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map it. Set this block by hand.
- Katana 3 blocks replaced with a stand-in model
Which ones
Replaced with a stand-in: Brown, Tube Screamer, Spring. These load cleanly but are not the model named above — the file will sound wrong here until we map them. Set these blocks by hand.
What we didn't check
- Nobody played this through a real amp. There is no human listening test behind any number on this page.
- The settings are reasoned from the sources below, not measured off the record.
- No audio has been rendered for this recipe yet, so you cannot hear it before you load it.
- 3 platforms on this page (TONEX, Kemper, Fractal) get a model pointer, not a preset file — nothing was built or checked for them.
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